Access to a Windows 2000 CD is all that is needed to bypass most Windows XP security features. An attacker can boot up XP and start the Windows 2000 Recovery Console which allows them to operate as any user, even Administrator, without requiring them to enter a password. This method even allows someone to copy files to removable media, something which normally the Administrator can’t even do in the Recovery Console — via Slashdot
The Prime Minister insists he will not be swayed by the human tide of protest against a war with Iraq — not by the more than 250,000 people who marched in Sydney yesterday, nor the 10 million who rallied worldwide. While the United States and Britain have vowed to press on with a second United Nations resolution, preparing the way for war on Iraq in spite of unprecedented worldwide peace protests
Close to one million people, from veteran peaceniks to first-time marchers, have packed central London to tell the government and the United States to pull back from war with Iraq in the country’s biggest ever peace march
Following firmly in Clinton’s footsteps, the retarded monkey boy‘s US$15 billion AIDS plan for Africa and Haiti would restrict the flow of money to groups that perform or promote abortions overseas
Two weeks ago it was revealed that Microsoft’s MSN portal targeted Opera users, by purposely providing them with a broken page. As a reply to MSN’s treatment of its users, Opera Software has released a very special Bork edition of its Opera 7 for Windows browser. The Bork edition behaves differently on one Web site: MSN. Users accessing the MSN site will see the page transformed into the language of the famous Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show: Bork, Bork, Bork — via Slashdot
A little altruism could go a long way in speeding up the Internet. That’s the conclusion two Cornell University computer scientists, Éva Tardos and Tim Roughgarden, came to after finding that computer networks tend to be ‘selfish’ when each tries to route traffic by the fastest pathway, causing that path to become congested and slow
Human rights watchdog Privacy International has started a competition to find the world’s most pointless, intrusive, annoying and self-serving security measures
Bring On The Junk! Junkyard Wars is looking for new contestants to compete on the 2003 series. Teams of contestants are given ten hours to build a machine to solve a specific challenge using parts they salvage from a junkyard
The nine companies promoting Blu-ray Disc technology — a next-generation recordable DVD format using blue-violet lasers — announced Thursday that licensing will begin 17 February. Blu-ray Disc technology allows for 27GB storage capacities on a single-sided 12cm disc
Telstra has plans to upgrade technology at many exchanges around the country to enable people to have high-speed internet access. However, those who are eager to find out if their exchange is on the upgrade list will have to wait until the deed is done
Humans make an attractive meal for all lions and not, as had traditionally been believed, just old and infirm animals unable to catch faster-moving meals
Meganet has developed an encryption technology that appears to be unbreakable, enabling governments and corporations, to keep their data safely out of the hands of competitors, thieves and saboteurs
Russia has threatened to use its veto to block Washington’s plans for a United Nations-endorsed Iraq war, as China swung behind the European proposal to beef up weapons inspections and avoid military action. While the anthrax rebellion in the Australian armed forces has widened, with another eight sailors en route to or already in the Persian Gulf refusing inoculations
Karl Suleman has finally been forced to face fraud charges stemming from the AU$60 million investment scam based around KSE and the Froggy group of companies
Western Australia’s Minister for Consumer Protection, John Kobelke, has issued a public warning about Web-based business service Australian Trade Register, describing its services as questionable
Spheral Solar has created a flexible, power-generating material that looks like denim can be draped over almost any shape — via Slashdot
An internal memo from Sun strongly suggests that Java should not be used for Sun’s internal projects. More interesting still, they go on to state which other languages fulfil Java’s goals better than Java does itself. Finally, the memo states Sun’s own Solaris is the cause of many of Java’s woes — via Slashdot
The UK parliament is using the domain www.parliament.uk. It’s a top-level domain because it was registered before August 1996, before Nominet handled .uk domains. But since there is no registrar, they can’t prove that they own it
Net freedom fighter Lawrence Lessig has urged the UK Government to ensure that digital copyright laws are fair
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